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Employees from the Grant County Detention Center packed the Grant County Courthouse last week for fear they wouldn’t be paid.

The special called meeting was held on Wednesday, Feb. 17 after Magistrate Jacqalynn Riley wanted to talk specifically with Jailer Chris Hankins about declining revenue and increased costs such as a $36,158 water bill at the facility.

(Editor’s Note: The Grant County News publishes all items in police beat that are submitted from each individual police agency. The News does not omit names from police reports.)

Kentucky State Police charged Bobby L. McNay, 40, of Williamstown, with failure to signal, operating a motor vehicle on a suspended license, failure to provide insurance, possession of a controlled substance heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia, at 10:37 p.m. Feb. 16 on Broadway Street. McNay was lodged at the Grant County Detention Center.

Andrew Davis is the Williamstown High School Youth Performance Award winner for January.
He is a senior at WHS and is the son of Todd and Amy Davis of Williamstown.
Extra-curricular activities: Marching Band and academic team
Community involvement: Tutors at Williamstown High School and participates in $100 Solution at Western Kentucky University.
Class schedule: Differential equations, Intro to discrete mathematics, chemistry 1 and chemistry 1 lab, writing in the disciplines and research.

A Dry Ridge dentist died from the injuries he suffered following a car accident a month ago on his way home from work.

Dr. Thad Thomas, 70, of Sparta, died on Feb. 17 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati.
Thomas who operated Thad Thomas Dentistry for 20 years was on his way home from the dental office on Jan. 19 when his 2010 Kia Forte exited the roadway on Warsaw Road about two miles from Dry Ridge and struck a utility pole.

The grand jury met Jan. 27 and returned indictments against 22 people.
The indictment of a person by a grand jury is an accusation only and that person is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
Those indicted were:
• Christopher Allen Cline, 43, theft by unlawful taking or disposition of property with a value of $500 or more and theft of identity.
• Silver O’Banion Jackson, 32, bail jumping in the first degree and being a persistent felony offender.

The Kentucky Supreme Court has unanimously reversed the 2013 conviction of a Scott County man convicted of murdering his parents in 2007.
The court ordered the case against James Anthony Gray to be remanded to Scott County Circuit Court for retrial.
Gray was convicted of two counts of murder and one count of tampering with physical evidence by a Scott County jury in February 2013.
The charges stemmed from the shooting deaths of James and Vivian Gray in their home on U.S. 25 north of Sadieville in April 2007.